Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem

by Jeffrey Gray

Book Overview

How does conscious experience arise out of the functioning of the human brain? How is it related to the behaviour that it accompanies? How does the perceived world relate to the real world? Between them, these three questions constitute what is commonly known as the Hard Problem of consciousness. Despite vast knowledge of the relationship between brain and behaviour, and rapid advances in our knowledge of how brain activity correlates with conscious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198520913
• ISBN13: 9780198520917
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"